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type: "Bill"
title: "CONCERNING SAFETY AND PRIVACY IN CERTAIN ENTITIES; AND CONCERNING THE DESIGNATION OF MULTI-OCCUPANCY RESTROOMS, CHANGING ROOMS, AND SLEEPING QUARTERS IN CERTAIN ENTITIES BASED ON AN INDIVIDUAL'S SEX."
description: "CONCERNING SAFETY AND PRIVACY IN CERTAIN ENTITIES; AND CONCERNING THE DESIGNATION OF MULTI-OCCUPANCY RESTROOMS, CHANGING ROOMS, AND SLEEPING QUARTERS IN CERTAIN ENTITIES BASED ON AN INDIVIDUAL'S SEX."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 486"
citation: "Arkansas SB 486 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Johnson", "Bentley"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-17T21:31:51+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-22T21:44:55+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0cba7164-ea73-40c0-b6b5-b123833db691"
source_url: "https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/FTPDocument/?path=%2fSessionInformation%2LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "ed7189cbf9417f3d2257857864943dd42982fe10b0d07864cf90a9da621f1f40"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
---
# Arkansas SB 486 (2025) — CONCERNING SAFETY AND PRIVACY IN CERTAIN ENTITIES; AND CONCERNING THE DESIGNATION OF MULTI-OCCUPANCY RESTROOMS, CHANGING ROOMS, AND SLEEPING QUARTERS IN CERTAIN ENTITIES BASED ON AN INDIVIDUAL'S SEX.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Act 955** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Acts/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2025R%2FPublic%2F&file=955.pdf&ddBienniumSession=2025%2F2025R)
2. **Amendment S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FAMEND%2F2025R%2FPublic%2FSB486-S1.pdf)
3. **SB 486** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2025/2025R/Bills/SB486.pdf)
## Sponsors
- B. Johnson — primary (person)
- Bentley — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-03-17T21:31:51+00:00** Filed `introduction`
- **2025-03-17T23:07:17+00:00** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20T18:56:11+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31T20:45:03+00:00** Rules suspended.
- **2025-03-31T20:45:10+00:00** Placed on second reading for purpose of amendment.
- **2025-03-31T20:45:18+00:00** Amendment # 1 read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and adopted, ordered engrossed.
- **2025-03-31T22:29:33+00:00** REPORTED CORRECTLY ENGROSSED
- **2025-03-31T22:29:42+00:00** Re-referred to STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T22:41:22+00:00** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-02T20:09:39+00:00** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-02T20:09:53+00:00** Ordered immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2025-04-02T22:00:35+00:00** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2025-04-03T00:44:55+00:00** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and referred to the Committee on STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE `reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-16T02:37:21+00:00** Returned by the Committee Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-16T18:10:24+00:00** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16T18:10:35+00:00** Returned to the Senate as passed.
- **2025-04-16T19:03:32+00:00** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2025-04-16T19:03:37+00:00** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2025-04-16T20:39:04+00:00** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2025-04-16T20:39:07+00:00** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-22T21:44:55+00:00** Notification that SB486 is now Act 955 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0cba7164-ea73-40c0-b6b5-b123833db691`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).